The State Public Health Council, in a 14-to-1 vote, has made permanent an emergency regulation used to close establishments allowing sex acts associated with AIDS. Without the council s vote on Friday, the emergency regulation, which prohibits any establishment from allowing anal intercourse or fellatio on its premises
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 - A majority of Americans favor the quarantine of AIDS patients, and some would embrace measures as drastic as using tattoos to mark those with the deadly disorder, according to a poll published today. The Los Angeles Times Poll found that 51 percent of the respondents supported a quarantine of acq
MIAMI, Dec. 15 - The state s top human rights officer has ruled that AIDS is a handicap, and that discriminating against its victims violates the state disability law, an AIDS victim s attorney says. The lawyer, Larry Corman, said Friday that Donald Griffin, executive director of the Florida Commission on Human Relatio
RENO, Dec. 11 - If the AIDS epidemic continues unabated, the nation s insurance industry could be paying billions in benefits in two years, an industry official warned Tuesday. We are very concerned with the AIDS crisis, its devastating impact on AIDS patients and its implications to both the insurance-buying public an
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 - All couples should be tested for exposure to AIDS virus before being granted marriage licenses, according to a resolution to be considered this week by American Medical Association leaders. The resolution, one of several concerning the syndrome, was included in a thick book of proposals distributed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 - Responding to parishioners fears about getting AIDS from communion cups, America s Roman Catholic bishops are telling pastors to stick with their regular services but be ready to offer alternatives. Partaking of consecrated wine as well as bread can be an important part of communion services, the N
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - Pregnant women infected with AIDS may run a risk as high as 65 percent of passing the infection to their unborn child, the Centers for Disease Control said Thursday in guidelines calling for testing of high-risk women who are or may become pregnant. The guidelines, published today in the centers w
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 - Bathhouses must monitor sexual activities on their premises and expel any men engaging in oral or anal sex under rules voted Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors. The measure was designed to combat AIDS, which cripples the body s immune system. Health professionals say it is spread by contac
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (AP) - The Pentagon has barred 66 civilians from military service in the past month because tests showed they had been exposed to a virus associated with AIDS, according to informed sources. The 66 were among 71,683 recruits screened since mandatory testing was started Oct. 15 for evidence of the di
NEWARK, Nov. 22 - The city has agreed to examine all police officers who came in contact with a detective who died this week after suffering from AIDS for the last year. The detective, Edwin Padilla, a seven-year veteran of the force, died Monday morning, according to Lieut. Armando Fontura. He was diagnosed four month
GRENOBLE, France , Nov. 12 - A third AIDS patient undergoing experimental treatment in France with the drug cyclosporine has died, the patient s doctor announced today. The doctor, Max Micoud, identified the patient as a 27-year-old man who had been treated with the drug for six days before his death on Saturday. D
PARIS, Nov. 11 - A French doctor who helped develop a controversial treatment for AIDS said today that one of his patients had died, but he said the experimental program has shown great promise and is being expanded. Dr. Philippe Even of the Laennec Hospital in Paris said the patient, a 38-year-old French male homosexu
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 - Mayor Dianne Feinstein plans to act this week to shut down bathhouses frequented by homosexuals because she believes they encourage sexual activity that helps to spread AIDS. I am absolutely convinced that the public health would be better served by closure of the bathhouses, Mrs. Feinstein sai
WASHINGTON BOROUGH, N.J., Oct. 25 - More than half the pupils at an elementary school here were absent today in a growing boycott by parents protesting the attendance of a 9-year-old boy whose sister has an AIDS-related disorder, the Superintendent of Schools said. About 160 pupils of the 251 enrolled at the school, Wa
A French study has found no evidence that AIDS can be spread by casual contact, one of the world s leading researchers says. Dr. Luc Montagnier, speaking Monday in San Francisco, said the French studied 60 handicapped boys, half of whom were hemophiliac. Half the hemophilacs had been infected with the virus associated
Lawyers for New York City and groups of Queens parents presented closing arguments yesterday in the court case challenging the city s decision to permit a child with AIDS to attend public school. The city s Corporation Counsel, Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., said six weeks of testimony had produced no evidence justifying
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 17 - The City Health Department has delivered letters by hand to 14 AIDS victims warning that sexual activity will result in felony charges, and the Mayor says carriers of the disease should transcend their individual rights in deference to society. The letters dispatched this week also order the vict
Governor Cuomo s advisory council on AIDS yesterday declined to recommend that bathhouses catering to homosexuals be closed to stem the spread of the disease. Instead, the panel suggested new regulations for the baths. The same rules should apply to some bars and to any heterosexual or homosexual establishment that is
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 7 - An insurance company whose underwriters were asked to identify potential AIDS victims will not automatically deny coverage to men in the high-risk group, a spokesman said today. But unmarried men between the ages of 20 and 49 living in cities with high numbers of victims of acquired immune de
DALLAS, Oct. 6 - An insurance company has told its underwriters to examine applicants personal lives and use marital status, age and residence in an attempt to screen out possible AIDS victims. A memorandum from the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company of Fort Wayne, Ind., advised health and life insurance underwrit
Diane McGrath, the Republican mayoral candidate, said she had met yesterday with police officials about security measures after having received death threats over her stand on AIDS and homosexuality. Mrs. McGrath said she had given officers from the Police Department s intelligence division details of telephone threats
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 1- The risk of transmitting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, from daily contact in the home apparently is nonexistent, even when people share toothbrushes, razors and other household items with victims of the disease, a new study says. Dr. Martha F. Rogers of the Centers for Disease Contr
Even though he labels AIDS research a top administration priority, President Reagan has only spoken out once about the deadly disease, and then only when prompted by reporters, says Rep. Gerry E. Studds, the only acknowledged homosexual in Congress. ... The president said last night it is one of the top priorities of t
ATLANTA - In revised guidelines aimed at eliminating AIDS virus from the blood supply, federal health officials recommended Thursday that any man who has had sex with another man even once in the last eight years refrain from donating blood. The national Centers for Disease Control has for years considered homosexual o
ATLANTA - Most children with AIDS should be allowed in the classroom, and officials should do their best to protect the pupils confidentiality, federal health authorities said Thursday amid mounting controversy over AIDS victims in public schools. For most infected children, the benefits of an unrestricted setting woul
BOSTON - Scientists have discovered a master control switch in the AIDS virus that allows it to reproduce with dazzling speed and helps make acquired immune deficiency syndrome such a devastating disease. It s an important new finding for the virus from a fundamental research point of view, said Dr. William Haseltine o
BOSTON - Most donors of AIDS-tainted blood are still healthy and capable of infecting others several years after inadvertently passing the lethal disease through transfusions, a study published Thursday shows. This tells us that there is a chronic carrier state of this infection, said Dr. Harold W. Jaffe of the federal
BOSTON - A new AIDS test will falsely suggest that thousands of healthy blood donors have the fatal disease, and this inaccuracy could scare away donors unless blood banks double-check results before releasing them, public health officials warn. The test is intended to screen out donated blood that is contaminated with
The Department of Health said yesterday that it had established a hot line to answer questions on an AIDS- related test that blood collection centers will soon administer to prospective donors. The test, for the HTLV-3 antibody, indicates whether a person has been exposed to the virus associated with AIDS, or acquired
WASHINGTON - The American Red Cross, awaiting release of a test to screen blood for evidence of AIDS, on Thursday described plans to put the test into use nationally within days of its approval. Red Cross officials said they have planned an intricate phase-in period for the test in all of their 57 blood regions and sho
A new vaccine to protect cats from feline leukemia could not only save the lives of many of the nation s 50 million cats but also point the way to a vaccine for a closely related human illness: AIDS. The vaccine is the first ever developed to prevent infection with retroviruses, an unusual class of viruses only recentl
WASHINGTON - Striking similarities have been found between the virus believed to cause AIDS and one that infects sheep, a development that could indicate that the deadly human disease originated in animals and that developing a vaccine against it could be difficult, scientists said Thursday. Researchers at the National
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